About 11 pm I heard thunder
And my Nokia 301 gave sad chirrups
I got a cable and connected it to the laptop
I hoped for rain but it passed  by on the other side
As it usually does
The lawns are yellow and the flowers dry before they die
Funny weather
I went to bed
The sheet looked very white
I was happy.
My arm itches where it was cut
I was looking at the stitches
And my   android device went off
I took FB  away from it altogether
I heard so many bad things
Wonder why nobody thought the worst sooner.
I ate some Weetabix,washed up and found my purse
I might need a cab.
Anyone might but I think of it alone late at night
The doctor cried, are you on Warfarin?
I said, no,I just bleed a  lot.
It went on my dress but now I lost the dress
I’ve been feeling queer all week
They’ ll phone me I suppose and whisper
The doc
tor would like to see you
And I shall say, I am on Soulmates in the Guardian
Does he take that?
When I know quite  well  what it means
I never joined a dating site but I pretend.
Nobody knows that  sometimes you don’t want to look  at a new face
I wonder what I’d put
Female  said to be smart,  clumsy and warm looking for  a man
Who  is tender and self confident
Who does not lose his temper every week
Who does not send obscene emails
Who can pull funny faces….
Who reads books
Who is not antisemitic nor anti any human group
Vegetarian welcome
I fall asleep thinking I have  one and a half courgettes uneaten
And  many ripe tomatoes
Dream of Jonah  and do not wail

 

Pray,Father.It is a year since my last Contrition
Do you mean Confession?
No,I never felt contrition in the year.I told  a lie when I said I did
Well. let’s not get tied in knots about it
I didn’t know one could get tied in knots.Are you into those funny games?
No,I am a student of Algebraic Topology
Who is he?
Have  you not heard about it?
I am baffled
It is a branch of geometry.
I see.Why are you doing it?
I like to keep my mind active
I  find it’s better to leave mine alone to drift into a reverie
But you might get sinful thoughts
No such luck unless you mean feeling like murdering a few politicians
Well, what sins have you fallen into?
I  cannot forgive a man who said I was stupid.
Perhaps he was full  of  ill will and unable to cope
You may be right.But I can’t forgive him
Well,I think  you are very clever.
Thank you so much.
Try not to ruminate.Why worry about what some malevolent man thinks.Keep well clear of him and it will fade.Anyway God made you so he is criticising God!
Gee,I never thought of that.He says he loves God.
Would he tell you if he didn’t?
No,I suppose he would hide it.
Try to mix with positive people who don’t judge you one way or the other and be like that yourself
Very wise.
Well I absolve you and for your penance go and feed the ducks
Wow,  things have changed round here
And so pray all of us

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Good art is good for people precisely because it is not fantasy but imagination. It breaks the grip of our own dull fantasy life and stirs us to the effort of true vision. Most of the time we fail to see the big wide real world at all because we are blinded by obsession, anxiety, envy, resentment, fear. We make a small personal world in which we remain enclosed. Great art is liberating, it enables us to see and take pleasure in what is not ourselves. Literature stirs and satisfies our curiosity, it interests us in other people and other scenes, and helps us to be tolerant and generous. Art is informative. And even mediocre art can tell us something, for instance about how other people live. But to say this is not to hold a utilitarian or didactic view of art. Art is larger than such narrow ideas

Iris Murdoch

Doctor,I’ve got vertigo
Let me be the judge.What symptoms do you have?
When I stand on the  roof to see the moon,I feel dizzy
When do you do that?
When I need a good reason to avoid sex~
Have you got a partner
No, that’s the problem.Men  think I need them
And  do you?
No,I  found out you can manage without a man
How?
By earning your own money.
Very wise.Now about the vertigo, keep your head level, chin up and back straight
What about the rolling I feel in bed
Nail it to the floor
And if that is no good?
Get a hammock
I’m at sea
Metaphorically speaking.
I want the white cliffs of Dover.
They are falling down!
What, have they got vertigo too?